Exactly Right

Exactly Right

Posted Aug 4, 2005 16:37 UTC (Thu) by GreyWizard (subscriber, #1026)
In reply to: It's about time... by hp
Parent article: Our bloat problem

On my desk I have an old iMac from 1999 with 32MB of RAM. Last week I tried to install Fedora Core 4 to on the poor thing, only to discover that it took thirty seconds from the time I moved the mouse to the time anything happened on the screen. That was just in anaconda (the installation program)! I'll have to try again in text mode when I get the chance, but I doubt I'll be running Firefox on that machine.

Meanwhile I'm typing on a 1.7 GHz laptop with 1GB of RAM where FC4 is quite snappy providing innumerable features I've come to think of as essential. Going back to RedHat 6 is simply not an option, even supposing it could be tricked into supporting the internal wireless card. Doing more with less is a worthy goal and I would be thrilled if some genius worked magic that made my iMac useful again, but until then I vote for bloat.

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